Chicago’s Inspector General, Joe Ferguson, says the city should have put $2.2 million into its coffers from a settlement, but a technicality prevented it. Ferguson says the city simply needs to amend municipal code to designate the Office of Inspector General as a “law enforcement organization.”

He says this would allow the city to share in any settlements stemming from investigations initiated by his office. In this case, a city contractor was convicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for defrauding the city’s Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise program.

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Office of Inspector General First Quarter 2014 Report.pdf